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NORTH COAST, Calif. – The Lagunitas Middle School Student Meeting held a benefit dance on Oct. 30, with proceeds going to help the animals harmed or displaced by the recent fires in Lake County.
The dance was a great success to do the participation of 81 children, great parent chaperones, donated baked goods and excellent music by DJ Luis Burgos.
After the expenses of the dance were paid, the children were able to donate $357.
The children reviewed a few appropriate non-profits, and decided to donate the money to the Sonoma C.H.A.N.G.E program, a nonprofit organization working closely with the Middletown Animal Hospital.
The C.H.A.N.G.E. secretary said, "Wow! I am so impressed! This money will go a long way to help the animals! Thank you so very much!"
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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Welcome back! This will be my last newspaper article because I will be stepping down as the writer of the school so I can completely focus on my academics and graduation.
We held two senior portfolios last week. The two students that had portfolios and are now Carlé graduates were Rob McGraw and Gage Beck. Carlé High congratulates them on their success in finishing school and wish them the best of luck in their adult lives.
There will be no school the week of Thanksgiving due to a deserved break.
On Thursday, Dec. 18, Carlé will hold its annual holiday dinner. The teachers, Barbara our super secretary, Olga and our principal Mr. Strahl will be making dishes to bring to the dinner.
The library will be set up with tables and the whole 10yards. The tables will be covered in table cloths, everything set up all fancy. Then, we all as a school will sit down like a family and eat.
The media class will be awarding over 100 bookmarks to all the people who are on or come to our campus. Each bookmark was hand designed and made with love to make sure everyone is thought of on the holidays.
This grading period is literally the halfway point for the entire school year. Students had grade checks last Friday, which signals the halfway point of the third grading period. Carlé gives out 12 either progress reports or grades each year to make sure students stay in touch with their goals and completely understand and are in control of their credits.
The SHARP program was held Nov. 8 and 9. The program is run through Lake Family Resource Center, and the person who teaches the program is Jonathan Killops.
The program’s name is an acronym and it means sexual health awareness program and it mainly focuses on continuation schools such as Carlé and the targeted age group is 12 to 20.
The program is a great program. I attended one of their two day programs myself and I highly recommend that if this program is offered at your child’s school is to have your child take it. Everything in that program meets California ed code.
I leave you readers with a final goodbye and thank you for reading. The Carlé Chronicle will start up shortly with new writer, Kristen Melcher.
Doyle Conatser is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Students at Pomo School in Clearlake spent the first weeks of November writing letters and making Christmas cards for troops.
They also have been collecting donations to put together care packages for troops away from home at the holidays.
On Thursday they delivered these boxes to Operation Tango Mike to be mailed off to the members of the military.
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The California Community Colleges Board of Governors on Monday unanimously directed the state Chancellor’s Office to develop a new model for accrediting the system’s colleges and to report back in March 2016 on details and a timeline for implementing the changes.
The board approved a resolution citing the need to raise the professionalism of accreditation in California, stating that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) has lost credibility with its peers and no longer meets the current and anticipated needs of California community colleges.
The board also declared that the community college system’s establishment of a bachelor’s degree program and its strengthened transfer pathways, such as the Associate Degree for Transfer program, require peer review from four-year colleges and universities to ensure top quality for students. The ACCJC does not accredit four-year institutions.
“The Board of Governors is looking to the future needs of our colleges and striving to ensure the highest level of quality for the 2.1 million students we serve,” Board President Geoffrey L. Baum said. “There is widespread agreement among faculty, staff, trustees and other leaders within our system that the current accreditation process needs significant improvement. We look forward to examining a proposal for change early next year.”
A task force appointed by Chancellor Brice W. Harris concluded in a report released in August 2015 that the ACCJC had lost the confidence of the college system, noting disproportionately high and frequent sanctions imposed on California colleges when compared to colleges in other regions of the country.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 113 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year. Community colleges supply workforce training, basic skills education in English and math, and prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions. The Chancellor’s Office provides leadership, advocacy and support under the direction of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.
For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/ , https://www.facebook.com/CACommColleges or https://twitter.com/CalCommColleges .